Open AccessCombined treatment of malignant medullar spine tumors
Author(s) -
V. A. Bizer,
G T Kudryavtseva,
Andrei Zubarev
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
vestnik travmatologii i ortopedii imeni n.n. priorova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-6738
pISSN - 0869-8678
DOI - 10.17816/vto98438
Subject(s) - medicine , radiation therapy , sacrum , chemotherapy , spinal cord , surgery , radiology , spinal cord compression , psychiatry
Twenty four patients with malignant medullar spine tumors were reviewed. Sacrum was involved in 67% of cases. Combined methods including chemotherapy and radiation therapy as well as complex methods including distant gamma-therapy, surgical management and chemotherapy were used. After chemotherapy and radiation therapy 58.3% of patients survived for at least 1 year, 41.7% of patients - 3 years and 33.3% - 5 years. In the most of those patients radical operation was impossible to perform, so chemotherapy and radiation therapy to decrease compression of spinal cord and increase of life time should be considered as an adequate method.